Ada Imogene Shirley

Wednesday

Jan 29, 2014 at 12:01 AM

PERRYTON - Ada Imogene Shirley, 92, died Monday, Jan. 27, 2014.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Mark Metzger officiating. Burial will be in Ochiltree Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Perryton.

Ada was born Aug. 31, 1921, in Cookville. After the death of her parents, she and her three siblings were taken to Wheeler County to live with aunts and uncles. She and her brother, Lawrence, went to a ranch in Wheeler County. She married Wayne Ivy Morris, and they had five children.

She married Willard James "Daddy Bill" Shirley in 1955, and the family moved to Perryton, where she worked at Perryton High School cafeteria for more than 25 years. Willard preceded her in death in 1997.

She also was preceded in death by a son, Billy Glen Morris, in 2007.

Survivors include two daughters, Shirley Jean Swan and husband Robert of Amarillo and Kelly Sue Shapley and Bruce Thompson of College Station; two sons, Floyd Ray Morris and wife Nadean of Pampa and David Wayne Morris and wife Gay of Malakoff; 13 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren.

Sign the online guest book at www.boxwellbros.com.

Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 29, 2014

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